There are two issues here. One is whether Actual Freedom’s approach produces the claimed effects and whether those effects actually improve people’s lives, and the other is whether it’s a cult. There’s a minor question of whether Actual Freedom is the only path to get those effects.
I don’t think it sounds all that much like a cult—they aren’t asking for money, they aren’t asking for devotion to a leader, and they’re saying they have a simple method of getting access to an intrinsic ability.
Whether it’s as absolutely true as they say is a harder question, though it might improve quality of life without working all the time. Whether it’s safe is a harder question—it sounds like a sort of self-modification which is would be very hard to reverse.
Whether no other system produces comparable results is unknowable.
There are two issues here. One is whether Actual Freedom’s approach produces the claimed effects and whether those effects actually improve people’s lives, and the other is whether it’s a cult. There’s a minor question of whether Actual Freedom is the only path to get those effects.
I don’t think it sounds all that much like a cult—they aren’t asking for money, they aren’t asking for devotion to a leader, and they’re saying they have a simple method of getting access to an intrinsic ability.
Whether it’s as absolutely true as they say is a harder question, though it might improve quality of life without working all the time. Whether it’s safe is a harder question—it sounds like a sort of self-modification which is would be very hard to reverse.
Whether no other system produces comparable results is unknowable.